We finished selling our stock a few hours before the market closed. With repeat custors and new ones always coming, we were selling everything early every day, to the point that we considered increasing our daily supply. After buying so more selnic items, I teleported us to Suuru's house, leaving her to her training, before teleporting again to Geola.
It had been a few days since I saw my rchant friend Giya, and I planned to visit him today. However, when I reached the day market, I found his booth empty. I asked the rchant right next to him, whom I knew he was in a friendly relationship with.
"Hello, sir. Would you know what happened to Giya?"
"Hello. He's sick today. Cough, cough. And I think he gave
his illness too."
He indeed coughed the sa way I rembered Giya doing.
"Oh no. You should consult soone, sir."
"Cough, cough. Maybe I will."
After thinking for a bit, I decided to go to Giya's house to see how he was doing. I still rembered where it was located and quickly made my way there. I knocked on the door but no one answered. After waiting a few monts, I knocked again. I heard so noise coming from inside and the feeble voice soon queried.
"Cough, cough, cough, cough! Who… is it?"
"Giya, it's Tila. I heard about your sickness."
"Ah… Tila. Cough, cough. Good to hear from you… I can't let you co in, my friend... I don't want you to catch whatever I have."
"Is there anything I can do? Did you go to the herbalist?"
"Cough, cough. Yes… Four of them. None could help … I even went to a life mage but that only cald down the pain for a short while."
Life mages were great for treating wounds and broken body parts but they weren't that useful for treating diseases. These were handled by dicines and drugs, whether it was in my world or this one. The only difference was that I wouldn't rely much on the concoctions prepared by herbalists from the outer world since it was always unsure how they prepared those.
"Damn. That sounds bad."
"I'll be fine after so rest… Cough, cough. That's what they all advised
to do… You shouldn't stay here for too long, Tila… You're rank 0… I don't want anything to happen to you… Cough, cough."
"Okay… Have a good rest, Giya. I hope you get better soon."
"Yeah… Cough, cough, cough, cough! Let's hit the brothel together when I'm back to health."
I left his place, deep in thought. Sothing was wrong. My instincts warned
about the situation. I stopped walking and focused hard.
Giya's disease. His neighbor rchant in the market being stuck with the sa disease. There was nothing strange about this. I searched deeper into my mories and managed to rember more.
'Wait. Wasn't there soone coughing in the inn this morning? And, co to think of it, I've been seeing people coughing in the slums for so ti now.'
Warning bells were ringing in my head. I was just a hypothesis but…
'Could it be the start of a pandemic?'
If it were the case, that would be very bad. In my world, pandemics were called "future destroyers
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